Katt Williams is a very funny man.I cracked my new issue of The New Yorker the other night and found a profile on Katt Williams. Immediately I wanted to let Rickey Powell in Berkeley know because Rickey, too, believes Katt Williams to be a very funny man. In fact, Rickey P. is the dude who turned me on to Katt Williams (who is a very funny man).
But, and as I wrote to Rickey this morning, "...[the article] seems so incomplete for some reason." Rickey concurred, "It does seem incomplete. Good way to put it." That's what he said.
I felt that the piece was either highly over-edited in a group-think manner or, simply, the author and the New Yorker editorial staff just don't get black (people) humor because they are the white people who produce The New Yorker magazine--no hate, just fact. I felt the profile was descriptive without being the least bit analytic. Biographical without the answering the "whys." Generally, New Yorker pieces, as a hallmark or trademark or something, delve into a fairly deep degree of analysis.
Sure, it was interesting to read a Katt Williams biography including the troubles he's seen, but why did Katt Williams get into these fixes? What is it about his story that potentiates his opportunities for news making, brow-raising problems? Huh?
Rickey offered, "They needed to delve into why black comedians go ape-shit (Lawrence, Chappelle, Williams). I think it's the burden of the massive posse they have to support. There's your next TBB essay, Don."
I said that I would take his bait but would have to do some "research" first (which mostly consists of iTunes, large headphones, marijuana cigarettes, and some hand lotion for the pr0nz).
Rickey continued:
NgaPlz, you don't have to do any research. Here are THE basic facts:
Lawrence: Guns and underwear in the street. Coma. Tisha "Gina" Campbell sexual harassment suit.
Chappelle: Ran away from $50M. To Africa. Farm in Ohio.
Williams: Guns and jail and a bunch of adopted children. The South Carolina bathrobe episode. Mental institution. 5'5".
Murphy: Male prostitute. The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Mel B. Donkey voice.
Pryor: Lit himself on fire. Seven wives. Lit himself on fire!
Lawrence: Guns and underwear in the street. Coma. Tisha "Gina" Campbell sexual harassment suit.
Chappelle: Ran away from $50M. To Africa. Farm in Ohio.
Williams: Guns and jail and a bunch of adopted children. The South Carolina bathrobe episode. Mental institution. 5'5".
Murphy: Male prostitute. The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Mel B. Donkey voice.
Pryor: Lit himself on fire. Seven wives. Lit himself on fire!
Why do you think Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker quit doing comedy? They didn't want to go bat shit crazy.
These basic facts of the black comedian are, coincidentally comedian-for-comedian, supported here: Top 5 Black Comic Meltdowns. But, again, the piece also fails to explore the whys.
I believe the whys have been suppressed. But why? By whom?
Why, nigga, why?
I'm here to analyze the whys for you. Rickey suggested that it was "Time for Ty's super-psycho-sociologist-scientist skills" on the matter. Then we got into a super-racist-not pc-mixed metaphor-historically inaccurate-comedy "line of the day" rant involving Tracy Morgan and being "off the reservation." But...
I'll try to reel it back. Here are Rickey's three main reasons black comedians flip ass:
True for all but, call me paranoid, the Cosby Mafia theory cannot be ignored. It's all Bill Cosby's fault that every funny black comedian meets a tragic public end. That's how he stays on top. He sends them laced Jello pudding pops, New Coke, and a camera crew.
Why, nigga, why?
Shhhhhh!
Have you ever heard about an entity called Project 21? I bet you haven't. Project 21 is buried in the basement of the National Center for Public Policy Research and is part of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives. Project 21 is the Area 51 of black conservative philosophy. Why do you think Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker quit doing comedy?
Read on:
Anti-civil rights blacks? Hello conspiracy! I'm almost afraid to discuss this shit because these niggas will fucking DESTROY me because I don't play by their rules. Rule #1 of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives is: "Don't use the word 'nigger'!" And I have personally dropped the N-word N-bomb all over the interweb for a very long time. I am in some serious trouble, people. I cannot eat any Jello brand product without a heavy case of The Fear. Seriously!
You can catch up on some of the prevailing black conservative (I just giggled a little) opinion and literature here: [clicky] Best commentary title: "Reparations for slavery? Or discrimination against light-skinned citizens?" Nigga please!
OK, here's how we got to this place: these are the blacks who were picked on in school by both the hater white kids and the cool black kids. These were your high school treasurers (running unopposed), your debate club members (articulate), and your marching band presidents (dorks). [full disclosure: I was band president and most valuable marching band Jr. and Sr. - am I safe though?]
They were called "nigger" by the whites and "cracker" by the blacks, they were laughed at, teased, left out, and all the while academically successful. They saw uncles and cousins and siblings succumb to drugs, prostitution, and other criminal activities. They viewed the church as a place for saints and sinners. But they worked harder than everyone else at school and in the workplace, practiced their diction, took perfect notes, sucked up to the institution of the white man, and now they are in key positions for revenge. They are the New America, a middlespace on the racial continuum. The black conservative.
This is a club of Clarence Thomas, Mychal Massie, and Alan Keyes types (cue song: Three Wise Men). The kind of people who believe that anti-gun laws favor criminals. No clownin', no hip-hop, no thuggin'. Bill Cosby is as edgy as they allow. Nigga please!
The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives are so fucking hard core they roll like this:
I believe the whys have been suppressed. But why? By whom?
Why, nigga, why?
I'm here to analyze the whys for you. Rickey suggested that it was "Time for Ty's super-psycho-sociologist-scientist skills" on the matter. Then we got into a super-racist-not pc-mixed metaphor-historically inaccurate-comedy "line of the day" rant involving Tracy Morgan and being "off the reservation." But...
I'll try to reel it back. Here are Rickey's three main reasons black comedians flip ass:
1) Posse Size: I saw Comedian and as best I could tell Jerry Seinfeld didn't have a five-vehicle entourage with him everywhere he went handing him pizza slices and Kool Aid in jewel encrusted goblets. Posse can also apply to business and creative partners (see Dave Chapelle); anyone you have to feed on a regular basis (MC Hammer).
2) The Comedian/Minstrel Dynamic: The pressures of success confronted by major cross-over black comedians once they notice that more than half of their sold-out audiences (and everybody in the first 15 rows) are white and laughing like they're at the Apollo.
3) Cocaine. Perhaps this should have been point #1.
2) The Comedian/Minstrel Dynamic: The pressures of success confronted by major cross-over black comedians once they notice that more than half of their sold-out audiences (and everybody in the first 15 rows) are white and laughing like they're at the Apollo.
3) Cocaine. Perhaps this should have been point #1.
True for all but, call me paranoid, the Cosby Mafia theory cannot be ignored. It's all Bill Cosby's fault that every funny black comedian meets a tragic public end. That's how he stays on top. He sends them laced Jello pudding pops, New Coke, and a camera crew.
Why, nigga, why?
Shhhhhh!
Have you ever heard about an entity called Project 21? I bet you haven't. Project 21 is buried in the basement of the National Center for Public Policy Research and is part of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives. Project 21 is the Area 51 of black conservative philosophy. Why do you think Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker quit doing comedy?
Read on:
"Project 21 is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment."
Anti-civil rights blacks? Hello conspiracy! I'm almost afraid to discuss this shit because these niggas will fucking DESTROY me because I don't play by their rules. Rule #1 of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives is: "Don't use the word 'nigger'!" And I have personally dropped the N-word N-bomb all over the interweb for a very long time. I am in some serious trouble, people. I cannot eat any Jello brand product without a heavy case of The Fear. Seriously!
You can catch up on some of the prevailing black conservative (I just giggled a little) opinion and literature here: [clicky] Best commentary title: "Reparations for slavery? Or discrimination against light-skinned citizens?" Nigga please!
OK, here's how we got to this place: these are the blacks who were picked on in school by both the hater white kids and the cool black kids. These were your high school treasurers (running unopposed), your debate club members (articulate), and your marching band presidents (dorks). [full disclosure: I was band president and most valuable marching band Jr. and Sr. - am I safe though?]
They were called "nigger" by the whites and "cracker" by the blacks, they were laughed at, teased, left out, and all the while academically successful. They saw uncles and cousins and siblings succumb to drugs, prostitution, and other criminal activities. They viewed the church as a place for saints and sinners. But they worked harder than everyone else at school and in the workplace, practiced their diction, took perfect notes, sucked up to the institution of the white man, and now they are in key positions for revenge. They are the New America, a middlespace on the racial continuum. The black conservative.
This is a club of Clarence Thomas, Mychal Massie, and Alan Keyes types (cue song: Three Wise Men). The kind of people who believe that anti-gun laws favor criminals. No clownin', no hip-hop, no thuggin'. Bill Cosby is as edgy as they allow. Nigga please!
The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives are so fucking hard core they roll like this:
In 2005 the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bi-partisan resolution apologizing for its historic failure to pass anti-lynching legislation in the form of a non-binding resolution sponsored by two southern senators, Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Republican George Allen of Virginia. In response to this apology, Project 21 issued this statement:
"I am all for the gracious acceptance of an apology that is due, or for apologizing when I am wrong. But just like giving credit where it is due, an apology only carries weight when it has meaning. And, in the case of the recent apology by Senator Mary Landrieu [D-LA] and her regretful cohorts on Capitol Hill, this apology doesn't amount to a hill of beans - at least not today.”
"The lynchings of the past, while a sad place in history to recount, is exactly that - history. The best way to avenge this shameful history and make it relevant to us today is not to wallow in the apologies and regrets offered by senators who couldn't be in any way responsible for what occurred, but to supply our own closure by forgiving those who trespassed against us and moving on."
"The lynchings of the past, while a sad place in history to recount, is exactly that - history. The best way to avenge this shameful history and make it relevant to us today is not to wallow in the apologies and regrets offered by senators who couldn't be in any way responsible for what occurred, but to supply our own closure by forgiving those who trespassed against us and moving on."
Dear U.S. Senate, please take your tired, busted apology and shove it up your ass!
And check this:
Project 21 member Mychal Massie has stated that "John Roberts is the type of jurist who represents the beliefs of great Americans such as James Madison and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
This is a world where affirmative action ("fear over progress") is terrible because like Ronald Reagan affirmed, hard work is its own virtue and evolution will sift the wheat from the chaff. These are the people who believe in George W. Bush and his bootstraps bullshit because that's exactly what they had to do. They've eaten so much shit that they not only like the taste now, but they want everybody to have a serving. These hard core motherfuckers call Colin "Well Spoken" Powell a sellout. And they fucking hate Barack "Socialist" Obama for destroying everything they believe in in three weeks. The NLNBC is rougher than the Bloods and the Crips combined with the Almighty Vice Lords and the Black Gangster Disciples. Combined! They wear suits. They use Bluetooth headsets for crying out loud!
I am dead man walking.
I offer this warning: Tracy Morgan is in serious trouble. Look what they did to Michael Jackson, don. Run!
So getting back to Katt Williams and why his New Yorker piece was so "incomplete." Ahhhhh! See? Them Project 21 hoodlums roll deep as a motherfucker! It's only paranoia if people are not actually after you.
If I'm lucky I'll only be transferred to a re-education center "somewhere in Philadelphia" and force-fed Jello pudding pops until my liver is harvested for a foie gras and cocaine party.
Why, nigga, why? Good bye. I'm going into hiding.
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